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Massive Google cover-up exposed: Hundreds of thousands of users compromised; Google tried to sweep it under the rug

Massive Google cover-up exposed: Hundreds of thousands of users compromised; Google tried to sweep it under the rug

Submitted by Natural Solutio... on Wed, 2018-10-10 05:51

10/09/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Not that anyone ever really used it anyway, but social networking site
Google Plus is officially going the way of the dodo bird after it was
revealed that private data on hundreds of thousands of users was leaked
due to a “bug.”

According to reports, a “vulnerability” was discovered during one of
Google’s “Project Strobe” assessments, which uncovered that as many as
500,000 Google Plus users had their names, email addresses, occupations,
genders, and ages made public without their consent.

Ben Smith, Google’s vice president for engineering, explained in a recent
blog post that the leaked information was “limited” in scope, which is why
Google decided not to even bother informing the users who had their data
leaked as part of the breach.

However, because Congress has been nudging ever so gradually towards
actually addressing the problem of internet privacy infractions, Google is
now quietly making it known that, oops!, they didn’t do a very good job of
keeping Google Plus users protected.

According to Smith, the “bug” was patched back in March, and since nothing
at the time suggested that anyone malicious had access the data or misused
it in any way, Google should apparently be praised for doing such a great
service for its users.

“Whenever user data may have been affected, we go beyond our legal
requirements and apply several criteria focused on our users in determining
whether to provide notice,” Smith wrote in his blog post.

Google privacy unit allegedly “reviewed this issue, looking at the type
of data involved, whether we could accurately identify the users to
inform, whether there was any evidence of misuse, and whether there were
any actions a developer or user could take in response. None of these
thresholds were met,” claims Smith.

Former Obama official says all these data breaches raise “the profile of
possible legislation”

Google certainly isn’t alone in hiding these egregious data breaches from
its users. Credit bureau Equifax had to face the ire of Congress last year
after it was disclosed that the company sat on a major data breach for
many months before finally revealing that personal identification data on
145 million people, nearly half of the U.S. population, had been stolen by
hackers.

Facebook was similarly reluctant in disclosing a more recent security
breach that exposed data on more than 50 million users to “advanced”
hackers. Keep in mind that these are just the data breaches we know about.
There could be many more taking place that the public isn’t even being
told about as the tech cabal aims to thwart justice and save face.

In other words, more needs to be done at the governmental level to hold
the tech cabal accountable for failing to protect the private data of its
users. Big Tech similarly needs to be held accountable for its active
censorship of user content, which is technically illegal since these
multinational corporations operate as public utilities rather than content
publishers – and they’re not allowed, under the law, to operate as both.

Adam Levin, founder of the identity protection firm CyberScout and former
director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, recently told The
Washington Examiner that data breaches have become so commonplace that the
only inevitable outcome is that they “will be held more and more to
account” for their repeated failures to keep private user information
safe.

For more news about the dangers of “living” online in the age of Big Tech
monopoly control, check out CyberWar.news.